Goyang-si Achieves Honor of Being Selected as an 'Active Administration Excellence Institution' for Two Consecutive Years

Selected as an Excellent Institution in the ‘2025 Local Government Proactive Administration Comprehensive Evaluation’ by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety
Proving Its Status as a Leading City in Proactive Administration
Realizing Proactive Administration That Citizens Can Feel

Goyang Special City, Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Lee Dong-hwan) announced on the 26th that it has achieved the great feat of being selected as an excellent institution for two consecutive years in the ‘2025 Local Government Proactive Administration Comprehensive Evaluation (2024 performance)’ conducted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety.

Exterior view of Goyang Special City Hall. Provided by Goyang Special City.

This can be seen as the result of Goyang City’s continuous efforts to promote citizen-centered innovative administration and to spread a culture of proactive administration.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety comprehensively evaluated the proactive administration performance throughout 2024 based on five major categories and 17 indicators for 243 local governments nationwide, including ▲improvements in proactive administration systems ▲efforts to activate (support, promotion, education) ▲implementation performance ▲perceived impact, and more.

In this evaluation, the city was selected as an excellent institution by receiving high marks in most indicators such as the efforts of the head of the institution, utilization of proactive administration support systems, selection of outstanding public officials, and efforts in education and promotion.

So far, the city has promoted active policies such as resolving current issues through the Proactive Administration Committee, providing incentives to public officials, and discovering and spreading best practices.

In addition, to encourage proactive administration among public officials, the city has activated a pre-consultation system and continuously discovered and disseminated excellent cases of proactive administration, establishing various institutional support measures. In particular, the discovery of proactive administration cases with high citizen perception that improved the quality of administrative services was also positively evaluated.

Among them, the case of providing village hall construction costs as compensation to residents of Goyang City who suffered damage for 37 years due to facilities avoided by other local governments was cited as a representative excellent case of Goyang City’s proactive administration.

Regarding the payment method of village hall construction support funds allocated by another city, when the city faced a crisis where it could not deliver the construction costs to residents due to differences in administrative procedures, it successfully delivered the village hall construction costs to the residents by utilizing the opinions of the Proactive Administration Committee.

Furthermore, aiming for ‘proactive administration that citizens can feel,’ the city spared no support to enable public officials to perform their duties with a creative and challenging attitude. In particular, efforts were made to establish a culture of proactive administration throughout the organization by expanding rewards for proactive public officials, providing education, and establishing a protection system for proactive public officials.

As a result of these efforts, over the past two years, the city has received awards such as ▲Excellent Institution in the 2024 First Half Local Government Proactive Administration Performance Inspection ▲Excellent Institution in the 2024 (2023 performance) Local Government Proactive Administration Comprehensive Evaluation ▲Excellence Award in the 2023 Ministry of the Interior and Safety Local Regulation Innovation Best Practices Competition ▲Encouragement Award in the 2023 Gyeonggi Province Proactive Administration Best Practices Competition, confirming once again its status as a leading city in proactive administration through this comprehensive evaluation.

Mayor Lee Dong-hwan of Goyang City said, “Being selected as an excellent institution in the comprehensive evaluation is the achievement of all Goyang City public officials who have carried out proactive administration for the happiness of citizens,” and added, “We will continue to realize proactive administration that citizens can feel and further spread the culture of proactive administration within the public service.”

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